Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke...

[safe/jmp/linux-2.6] / Documentation / filesystems / proc.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
index ae7f8bb..94b9f20 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -176,6 +176,7 @@ read the file /proc/PID/status:
   CapBnd: ffffffffffffffff
   voluntary_ctxt_switches:        0
   nonvoluntary_ctxt_switches:     1
+  Stack usage:    12 kB
 
 This shows you nearly the same information you would get if you viewed it with
 the ps  command.  In  fact,  ps  uses  the  proc  file  system  to  obtain its
@@ -229,6 +230,7 @@ Table 1-2: Contents of the statm files (as of 2.6.30-rc7)
  Mems_allowed_list           Same as previous, but in "list format"
  voluntary_ctxt_switches     number of voluntary context switches
  nonvoluntary_ctxt_switches  number of non voluntary context switches
+ Stack usage:                stack usage high water mark (round up to page size)
 ..............................................................................
 
 Table 1-3: Contents of the statm files (as of 2.6.8-rc3)
@@ -307,7 +309,7 @@ address           perms offset  dev   inode      pathname
 08049000-0804a000 rw-p 00001000 03:00 8312       /opt/test
 0804a000-0806b000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0          [heap]
 a7cb1000-a7cb2000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0
-a7cb2000-a7eb2000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
+a7cb2000-a7eb2000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0          [threadstack:001ff4b4]
 a7eb2000-a7eb3000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0
 a7eb3000-a7ed5000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
 a7ed5000-a8008000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 4222       /lib/libc.so.6
@@ -343,6 +345,7 @@ is not associated with a file:
  [stack]                  = the stack of the main process
  [vdso]                   = the "virtual dynamic shared object",
                             the kernel system call handler
+ [threadstack:xxxxxxxx]   = the stack of the thread, xxxxxxxx is the stack size
 
  or if empty, the mapping is anonymous.
 
@@ -1069,7 +1072,8 @@ second).  The meanings of the columns are as follows, from left to right:
 - irq: servicing interrupts
 - softirq: servicing softirqs
 - steal: involuntary wait
-- guest: running a guest
+- guest: running a normal guest
+- guest_nice: running a niced guest
 
 The "intr" line gives counts of interrupts  serviced since boot time, for each
 of the  possible system interrupts.   The first  column  is the  total of  all
@@ -1085,8 +1089,8 @@ The "processes" line gives the number  of processes and threads created, which
 includes (but  is not limited  to) those  created by  calls to the  fork() and
 clone() system calls.
 
-The  "procs_running" line gives the  number of processes  currently running on
-CPUs.
+The "procs_running" line gives the total number of threads that are
+running or ready to run (i.e., the total number of runnable threads).
 
 The   "procs_blocked" line gives  the  number of  processes currently blocked,
 waiting for I/O to complete.
@@ -1110,7 +1114,6 @@ Table 1-12: Files in /proc/fs/ext4/<devname>
 ..............................................................................
  File            Content                                        
  mb_groups       details of multiblock allocator buddy cache of free blocks
- mb_history      multiblock allocation history
 ..............................................................................
 
 
@@ -1205,7 +1208,7 @@ The following heuristics are then applied:
  * if the task was reniced, its score doubles
  * superuser or direct hardware access tasks (CAP_SYS_ADMIN, CAP_SYS_RESOURCE
        or CAP_SYS_RAWIO) have their score divided by 4
- * if oom condition happened in one cpuset and checked task does not belong
+ * if oom condition happened in one cpuset and checked process does not belong
        to it, its score is divided by 8
  * the resulting score is multiplied by two to the power of oom_adj, i.e.
        points <<= oom_adj when it is positive and